{"id":2090,"date":"2013-08-20T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:52:13","slug":"august-18-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"18th-20th August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castle Island on Sunday 18th proved a good stop ,as 27 Black tailed Godwits fed in the muddy shallows of the island. Nearby,among the flocks of\u00a0\u00a0Lapwings and Black headed Gulls,were 3 Green Sandpipers, a Greenshank and a Common Sandpiper. A female Gooseander fished the river,as did several Common Terns.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to Cresswell where I had just missed a Merlin go through,a Barn Owl showing well,and a Spotted Redshank\u00a0on the mud\u00a0. 3 Knot, several Greenshank and a Common Sandpiper had returned to feed. Another good number of Black tails here, this time 23 in total, some coming in from the north east.<\/p>\n<p>Heading up to Druridge Pools, a Common Sandpiper and a Yellow Wagtail showed in front of the hide,and a family of 4 Otters had been seen earlier.Two Kestrels seen also. A Sparrowhawk caused panic among the Swallows and Sand Martins feeding over the main pool, 40+ of the latter counted. Large young in the Swallows nest in the hide.<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies included around 25 Walls, 15 Large Whites, a Small Copper and one of each\u00a0 of\u00a0Dark Green Fritilliary and Comma. Several Peacocks and Tortoiseshells.<\/p>\n<p>At St Marys, today 81 Sanderling now and 36 Ringed Plover on the beach with a single Bar tailed Godwit. A large flock of Oystercatchers gathered at their high tide roost on the island. 80-90 House Sparrows was noteworthy too. No sign today of the increasing Golden Plover flock. No doubt in the nearby fields somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>At Seaton Sluice , 90-100 Swallows, 4 Sand Martins and several House Martins were gathered on wires and feeding over grass banks, many of the Swallows being youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>Here on the 19th, 7 Whimbrel flew south.<\/p>\n<p>A.S.J.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3350 alignleft\" alt=\"AJ-20-08-13-a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-a-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-a.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3351 alignleft\" alt=\"AJ-20-08-13-b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-b-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-b-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/AJ-20-08-13-b.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castle Island on Sunday 18th proved a good stop ,as 27 Black tailed Godwits fed in the muddy shallows of the island. Nearby,among the flocks of\u00a0\u00a0Lapwings and Black headed Gulls,were 3 Green Sandpipers, a Greenshank and a Common Sandpiper. A female Gooseander fished the river,as did several Common Terns. Moving on to Cresswell where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}